Contractors find little relief from government shutdown impacts

By Josh Hicks, Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 8:44 PM E-mail the writer

Steve Shockley has burned through vacation time to shield his family from the lapse in federal appropriations that forced him out of work indefinitely last week. He planned to use his last day on Wednesday.

The resident of South Riding, Va., a contracted technical writer for the Justice Department, is supporting a wife, who just opened a new preschool last month, and three children, ages 7, 8 and 9.

The short-term former Democratic senator is going back to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston.

“This couldn’t have come at a worse time,” he said of the cutback. “It’s kind of killing us.” Continue reading

Contractors find little relief from government shutdown impacts

By Josh Hicks, Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 8:44 PM E-mail the writer

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